Puny server make Hulk mad! Hulk smash!! Just wanted to share some of the intelligent behind-the-scenes conversation that surrounded the server problems that plagued us yesterday. Many thanks to Chris at Pair, who hung in there through all the crashes, ultimately replacing the server's motherboard (switching to a 100-base T connection in the process). Hopefully this is all under control now. Again, apologies for the downtime.

I removed an extra bullet point I accidentally added to the what's new in Q3Test version 1.08 post yesterday (story), in case you were wondering why id chose to add a timescale cheat, the note now reads "prevents timescale cheating " as it should... one bullet can make such a difference, as many who have been shot can confirm (more tellingly, so many who have been shot cannot confirm anything).

I just re-read the sentence I typed above, and I think it's safe to say that my fears that composing Out of the Blue earlier in the day would cause it to be more coherent were unfounded.

Link of the Day: Uncle Booger's BumperDumper. Thanks Chris Sweitzer.
Bonus Link: The Half-Life: Scientist Torture Tutorial. A guide to killing NPCs in Half-Life. Sure it's sadistic, but if we don't link it, the 50-some scientists killed in the making of the guide will have died for nothing.